So he took the orphaned raccoons to a wildlife rehabilitation facility. And according to the facility, this happens all too often.

"Trappers often kill the mother and dump their young on wildlife rehabilitation organizations like ours, in many cases they threaten to kill the babies as well if we do not accept them," Damen Hurd, vice president of Wildlife Inc. Education and Rehabilitation Center in Florida, explained on the center's Facebook page on Thursday. "I haven't been posting much lately but this really left me frustrated."

And there's a better, more humane way, to get raccoons out of the attic and into the woods.

"We recommend contacting a local wildlife rescue or rehabilitation center to ask for an animal-friendly trapper that will relocate or release animals that they trap instead of killing them," Hurd told The Dodo.